YOUNG + RESTED

Palma Violets - “Best Friend”The UK group played a...

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:33:24 -0400

Palma Violets - “Best Friend”
The UK group played a great show a few weeks ago at Johnny Brenda’s in Philly and this was the #1 pleezer. I’m happy to see the video lives up to my brain hype.

"D.C. garage-rock four-piece previews first-ever 7-inch record"

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:20:06 -0400

“D.C. garage-rock four-piece previews first-ever 7-inch record”

- Stream Shark Week’s Heartbroken Galloper ‘Go West’

Ty Segall - “Goodbye Bread” Still, still, still my...

Fri, 17 May 2013 21:15:57 -0400

Ty Segall - “Goodbye Bread”

Still, still, still my favorite to go down in the history of my favorites.

FIRST SINGLE OFF UPCOMING “YOU’LL NEVER WALK...

Thu, 02 May 2013 14:36:19 -0400

FIRST SINGLE OFF UPCOMING “YOU’LL NEVER WALK ALONE” FULL-LENGTH BY SAN FRANCISCO’S BURNT ONES! IN STORES ON APRIL 30TH!!! www.burgerrecords.com

One day I hope to be the best at conducting interviews, but for...

Thu, 02 May 2013 14:34:37 -0400

One day I hope to be the best at conducting interviews, but for as long as this overweight Troll doll exists, that’s not going to happen.

Music Video for Mac Demarco’s “My Kind of...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:38:00 -0400

Music Video for Mac Demarco’s “My Kind of Woman”

This young guy can do no wrong. When I interviewed him last March, he said a few press photos taken during a Halloween adventure made everyone think he was a “lipstick-wearing weirdo for awhile.”

Well this video is not helping his case, but I don’t really think he gives a fuck about cases.

Today is DRAG CITY day!!! For me, at least…Ty Segall -...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 11:36:53 -0400

Today is DRAG CITY day!!! For me, at least…

Ty Segall - “Thank God for Sinners”

Dope Body - “Leather Head”

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 10:47:50 -0400

Dope Body - “Leather Head”

Mac Demarco & Burger Records

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 23:23:13 -0400

Mac Demarco & Burger Records

I am more than bummed to miss Iceage play in my city the 19th of...

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 14:15:44 -0400

I am more than bummed to miss Iceage play in my city the 19th of this month, more bummed than I am about the reason. I promised my little sister I’d go see Miranda Lambert with her. Moral of the story: never promise your little sister anything, ever. You might miss a really good f*cking show* because of it.

*Iceage plays with METZ next Friday at Johnny Brenda’s in Philadelphia, PA.

Iceage - “Morals” from Copenhagen (by matadorrecs)

PREORDER HERE!...

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 14:03:11 -0400

PREORDER HERE! http://www.burgerrecords.org/apps/webstore/products/show/3716254

From the Desk of King Tuff:

It’s always seemed as though Was Dead kinda came outta nowhere. Even for me, I don’t remember writing the songs and I barely remember recording them. I do know that they came from the purest part of my heart and they were made with a mischievous little smile on my face.

I think it was 2006. I recorded mostly late at night, in a giant dirty ballroom called Vegetable Street, in my hometown of Brattleboro, Vermont. My days were filled with endless cups of Mocha Joe’s coffee, black, sitting on the stoop with my friends, and spazzing out on my guitar. Looking down at the streets of Brattleboro below and out at Mount Wantastiquet and beyond. I didn’t have a cell phone or a computer and the only way to find me was either to call my mom, Lil’ Smashy, who was probably already too busy cooking me something really delicious, or spot me in the corner of the coffee shop spying on people and drawing them in my sketchbook. They were very chill times.

I wanted Was Dead to be a pure Vermont Rock and Roll record, fueled by extra sharp Cabot cheddar cheese and hot, grade-A fancy maple syrup poured over crisp white snow and served with a pickle and a cider donut. You sit down on the shitty concrete in the parking lot and you slurp it all up. I had already made a few King Tuff albums in the early 2000’s and had laid the project to rest around 2003. But something told me to resurrect King Tuff, hence the title Was Dead.

This album changed my life in so many ways, as it slowly trickled out into the world. I never expected anyone to hear it, let alone connect with it. I never would have left Vermont, never met the boys at Burger Records or any of the other insane, beautiful, cartoonish characters that now populate my life in the best way. It’s an expression of my infinitely teenage heart and soul, and I’m really proud of it. So here it is again, thanks to Burger Records. These songs belong to the Strutters and the Stutterers, the Headbangers and the Stoop Hangers, the Ruthies and the Gold Toothies, and of course, the A-N-I-M-A-L-S…
Was Dead is reanimated on April 30th, 2013 via Burger Records.

KING TUFF WAS DEAD (In Memoriam)

“The moment I first heard Was Dead I knew that this album would be with me for the rest of my life. The decaying neon of Times Square in ‘77, infinite lines of powder off of a lime green and pink album sleeve. Meeting a stone fox and realizing that I just wasn’t that kind of guy. Slithering doubled vocals that creep into your mind like a crystal splinter. King Tuff was dead and I guess I kind of was too.” - Gap Dream

“King Tuff is one of the most bad-ass guys I know, I once saw him take out his contact lenses after holding a handful of Sour Patch Kids.” - Matt, Matt & Kim

“Thee rock & roll record of our degeneration of outsiders, freaks & radical weirdos - it’s the beat to which we all can bang our heads to the heavens in unison, dancing & having endless fucking fun!!”- Mr. Burger Records

“I’ve been a fan of Was Dead for so long that I almost forgot I produced the second record, which is amazing.”- Bobby Harlow, The Go

“I’m trying to sift through the cobwebs of my brain. How long ago was that? I just remember that when KT recorded anything I was afraid to bother him cause he would “growl” at me. Sometime I would slip notes under the door in hopes he would see them. Since he recorded so late at night, the music would find its way into my dreams and for months it would be like background music in all my dreams, whether he was recording or not. Made for some interesting dreams.”- Lil’ Smashy

“His goddamn mean green Chevrolet sat motionless in my goddamn driveway for years, growing a jungle of mold and acting as a home for the spiders, squirrels, and gnomes.” - Old Man Tuffy

“Get Heavy, Get Weird.” -Dan Wars

“ARE YOU KIDDING ME you don’t even remember when rock music was this free of irony and indie-industrial-complex annoyingness, so full of the thaw of springtime and the thrill of a new guitar sound. Wake up on a Wednesday, pour a cup of coffee and make macaroni glue-on collages in the sunshine on a linoleum floor, this is IT. King Tuff, PLEASE DON’T DIE”- Merrill Garbus, tUnE-yArDs

“Call me if you need more dope ass quotes.”-Ruthie

“I forgot to think about something.” -Ruthie

“A wild and unpredictable energy filled the air. There was a quarter pipe next door with a giant purple cyclops. There was a bathroom that looked like the inside of a stomach. There was a futuristic watermelon hallway.
I had let a friend of mine crash on the couch in Vegetable Street after a two-day long acid binge. KT came in shortly after and started recording. He blasted out the guitar and vocal tracks for “Freak When I’m Dead” at full volume. My friend lay completely unconscious and oblivious to the historic commotion being created a few feet away. KT made an unholy racket for a little while longer and unplugged a few cords…”BZZZT” The sudden silence caused my friend to sit bolt upright on the couch with a frightened and confused look on his face. ” What the?! What’s going on?!” - Big Luke Thomas

“From where did you spring forth? Mighty and fearless King Tuff? From whence did you fearlessly materialize? From a transcendental quince seed perchance? You are correct to think I take no precautions when diving into your lazerbeam! You are correct to think I await, heart agape, in hope of being pounced on by your ferocious and yet tender animal! You are not wrong to think I am forever drowning in an ocean of urine but unable to piss until your Sun Medallion allows me safe passage, you are the panacea, the tincture, the elixir of perpetual virility, Venus and Adonis, ever tumescent, ever engaged and de-calcified, ever snorkeling in the waters of Just Strut, ever enveloped in Was Dead.” - Devendra Banhart

“Me make Rock Roll!” -King Tuff

The Memories - “Love Is The Law” Because sometimes...

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 13:27:59 -0400

The Memories - “Love Is The Law”
Because sometimes the munchies can’t wait.

Listen/purchase Love Is The Law by The Memories

Beach Day - "Boys"

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 15:33:00 -0400

Beach Day - "Boys":

Stream Beach Day’s new “Boys” track, killing it on this fake summer day. See y’all at North Star bar on May 7.

Take me here.

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 14:44:48 -0400

Take me here.

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Sun, 07 Apr 2013 22:07:11 -0400

New album from The Veils, Time Stays, We Go l April 23rd...

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 12:17:41 -0400

New album from The Veils, Time Stays, We Go l April 23rd 2013

http://theveils.com/timestayswego

james-blake: James Blake ‘Overgrown’ Album Trailer

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 09:00:17 -0400

james-blake:

James Blake ‘Overgrown’ Album Trailer

Stream The Black Angels: Indigo Meadow on Pitchfork Advance

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 12:02:40 -0400

Stream The Black Angels: Indigo Meadow on Pitchfork Advance

// March 19th, 2013 Bona Dish were a scratchy pop punk group...

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 00:31:13 -0400

// March 19th, 2013

Bona Dish were a scratchy pop punk group from Hertfordshire villages, brought together by their love of the Velvets, Supremes and each other. They were cool, handsome and gorgeous. The songs are simple but at the same time complex. The two girls, two boy’s line-up added a tension that was both sexual and musically fragile. You felt it might all fall apart any second but it rarely did.

After their “cassette in a tube” ploy worked for John Peel play, the band released a cassette on InPhaze and disbanded not long after. Collected here is a rediscovered gem showcasing the zest and spontaneity that gripped the UK DiY scene of the time, standing up to their contemporaries like Television Personalities, The Homosexuals and Marine Girls.

This release marks the first vinyl and cd release for BonaDish, their complete recorded output compiled and newly mastered.

nidoburgerking: Night Beats - Drowning in the Nile

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 22:05:12 -0400

nidoburgerking:

Night Beats - Drowning in the Nile